Category Archives: Agreements

Compromised Relationships are Not a Matter of Chance

I have avoided kissing ass most of my life. Where I live is not as important to me, so I can avoid ass kissing there. I have mostly worked for myself also. At present I am in transit and have … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

Direct Feedback Moment (DFM)

This is a tool I am suggesting as an approach to solving what I consider a problem in conversation. I call it a Direct Feedback Moment or DFM and I think it can be used once two people agree upon … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

Direct Feedback Mode

What about this for a new method of conversing Called DFM where, if I am talking to you we activate the DFM any time. That is Direct Feedback Mode. How it works: So the conversation is going along in parallel … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

Can’t Disagree With Feedback

My mum reckons that I am still partly responsible for Thomas’s (my older brother) break up with Ann Marie, his girlfriend of a few months. Even though they got back together after the gold coast break up that both Tom … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | 1 Comment

What is Worth Considering?

Steve I did a bit of considering last night and came up with this. I think your Concept was that the letter was too long and also too familiar from someone that has never talked to the guy…”rude”. That once … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

Distil the Concept

Right, so from now on to help you uphold your agreement and me uphold mine, I suggest if one of use feels like the other is trying to convert them we can distil the concept to its bare bones. That … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

The Desire to be Always Right is a Nobel Desire!

The desire to be always right is not a bad thing it just has a few cracks in it. And as Leonard Cohen says “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” and afterall it is … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

Ego is not a Dirty Word. Its just a Very Focused Thought!

Ego is not a dirty word, it is just the decision making process that we use to make our moment to moment decisions, I reckon. It is what lets us get some runs on the board or starts the ball … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

What makes us tick and the desire to be right.

Email to Hugh MacKay Author of “What Makes Us Tick? The ten desires that drives us.” from the ABC Big Page http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigideas/stories/2010/3038586.htm Hi Hugh, I saw the last of your talk today on the ABC and once again I thought … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment

Charmed, I’m Sure

I met Shauna (26) the other night. Five foot tall, beautiful, petite blonde and drives a 40 tonne dump truck. She was telling me that I should not leave it “too late” to find someone. That I should “charm” women … Continue reading

Posted in Agreements | Leave a comment